My Past Quotes
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.
Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.
If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.